Man airlifted to hospital after 10-foot fall

EXETER — A local man was airlifted to Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston on Sunday, with a life-threatening head injury after a fall.

Joey Cresta

EXETER — A local man was airlifted to Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston on Sunday, with a life-threatening head injury after a fall.

Exeter Fire Lt. Jason Greene said the man, believed to be 80 years old, was in and out of consciousness when medics with Exeter Fire and Rescue responded around 1 p.m. to his home at 3 Coach Road.

Greene said the man had fallen roughly 10 feet from a loft positioned above a garage. He did not know exactly what transpired but said it was accidental.

Medics treated the man at the scene before transporting him to a landing zone in the field across from the Brickyard Pond Park on Route 111. A Dartmouth-Hitchcock Advanced Response Team medical helicopter picked up the man and flew him to Brigham and Women's, Greene said.

Firefighters did not know the man's name, but public assessing records list the homeowners at 3 Coach Road as Edward and Audrey Castle.

Greene said the man's wife was the one who found him and called 911.

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